Making Freelance Journalism Part of Your Professional Toolkit, with ROBERT STEINER, Director of the Fellowships in Journalism Program, Munk School of Global Affairs
  
DATE:  Tuesday, April 14
TIME:  5:30 reception; 6:00-8:00 p.m. seminar
PLACE:  University Club
PRICE:  $30 

The current revolution in journalism is opening a unique opportunity for professionals and academics of all ages to shape the coverage of their fields by developing a journalism career alongside their other work. Covering important stories for lay audiences – whether full-time or part-time – demands unique disciplines and yields unique professional and intellectual rewards.

In a two-hour session, Robert Steiner, Director of the Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs in the University of Toronto, will introduce Oxford and Cambridge alumni to the core disciplines of freelance journalism, including:

•  competing for editors’ attention;


•  finding compelling story ideas;


•  pitching stories to editors; and


•  elements of reporting strategy and writing structure.

He will also lead a conversation about different ways in which professionals and academics can craft their own part-time or full-time journalism careers.  

Please join us for this exciting and timely event. 

If you wish to stay on for an informal dinner at 8.00 p.m. in the main floor bar, please indicate your attendance by signing up for the dinner ticket (dinner not included in pricing; everyone to pay individually).

ABOUT ROBERT STEINER

Robert Steiner is Director of the Fellowships In Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Fellowships are a fundamentally new type of post-graduate training in global journalism, for starting journalists with advanced knowledge of complex disciplines.

Mr. Steiner began his career as a global finance correspondent for The Wall Street Journal with postings in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won two Overseas Press Club awards and the Inter-American Press Association Award.

After leaving The Wall Street Journal Mr. Steiner received his Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked as a business strategy executive, first at The Boston Consulting Group and later as Group Vice President in charge of Strategic Planning for Bell Globemedia, parent of The Globe and Mail and CTV. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Steiner was Assistant Vice President of the University of Toronto, in charge of Strategic Communications.